Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in wherever you are.

And as ever, you know what I'm going to say.

We've got a lot to cram in in our time together.

Some brilliant questions from a whole variety of people in the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative.

Oh, by the way, I bumped into

somebody the other day who said, I really like the podcast, but this cooperative thing,

what kind of movement is it? And I did say, well, it's partly tongue in cheek, partly true, but he said, is it the co-op?

I said, no, no, no. It's not the co-op. The John Lewis model is quite close, really, I suppose, you know,

except for we aren't able to buy clothes and furniture or whatever it is or a new laptop, which you can do it, John Lewis.

But that's the kind of model.

But, yeah, some great emails.

And this, of course, this podcast, some of you will hear it almost on the day of the one-year anniversary of the election last year.

I can't believe it that it's a year ago.

And of course, a lot has happened since then.

And I'll be reflecting a bit on that in the context of the whole drama of welfare reform in my kind of opening thoughts.

And before all of that, first of all I want to say thank you those who joined the Patreon live

exclusive last week and we'll do another one soon. And thank you for subscribing to Patreon, those of you who do,

and those of you who don't, please do. It doesn't cost very much. And keeps the show on the road

with the podmasters. There's a live show coming up at King's Place on July the 17th,

the end of the political year special. We always do one at the end of the

political year and it has been one hell of a political year. And then in theory, everyone goes on

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